Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
One man with courage is a majority.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.